The European project - HealthyAir is a network project involving six
institutions in Europe on actions and activities that address the effects of
construction products on indoor air. Different ways to improve indoor ...

This report describes the methodology and results of a study of aircraft cabin air quality undertaken by Cranfield University and two contracted analytical laboratories on behalf of the Department for Transport (DfT). The ...

This is the second part of the report on aircraft cabin air quality prepared by Cranfield University for the Department for Transport. The study was set up in light of concerns about possible adverse impacts on the health ...

The optimization of DNA hybridization for genotyping assays is a complex experimental problem that depends on multiple factors such as assay formats, fluorescent probes, target sequence, experimental conditions, and data ...

It has been well documented that ascorbate enhances iron uptake, with a proposed
mechanism based on reduction to the more absorbable ferrous form. We have
performed a study on the effects of ascorbate on ferric iron ...

When assessing the possible risks to human health associated with contaminated
land, one of the potential pathways of exposure to be considered is the release
of chemical vapours that might be inhaled by people via ambient ...

The toxicity of elemental tungsten released from discharged shot was assessed against previous studies that established a 1% toxic threshold for soil organisms. Extremely heavy theoretical shot loadings of 69,000 shot/ha ...

The fate of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella Typhimurium, or Escherichia coli O157:H7 were separately monitored both in and on teewurst, a traditional raw and spreadable sausage of Germanic origin. Multi-strain cocktails ...

Stage of ripeness and quality of avocado is notoriously difficult to assess by conventional methods. Texture is a very important determinant of avocado fruit quality and can change radically during storage. The difficulties ...

In 2006, the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics published a special issue devoted exclusively to biofuel cells, including several research papers and an extensive review of the field [Bullen, R.A., Arnot, T.C., Lakeman, ...

Mycotoxin analysis and detection in food and drinks is vital for ensuring food
quality and safety, eliminating and controlling the risk of consuming
contaminated foods, and complying with the legislative limits set by ...

Conventional wisdom is that breath acetone may be markedly elevated in type 1
diabetes, but that this only occurs during poor blood glucose control and/or
intercurrent illness. In contrast, little is known about breath ...

Objectives: Work-related cancers are largely preventa¬ble. The overall aim of
this project is to estimate the current burden of cancer in Great Britain
attributable to occupational factors, and identify carcinogenic ...

CASS•E is a life detectionexperimentthat aims to be capable of collecting
microorganisms in Earth's Stratosphere. Theexperiment will be launched on
astratosphericballoon in collaboration with Eurolaunch through the ...

Portable biomimetic sensor devices for the express control of phenols content in
water were developed. The synthetic binding sites mimicking active site of the
enzyme tyrosinase were formed in the structure of free-standing ...

The food industry produces a large amount of onion wastes, making it necessary
to search for possible ways for their utilization. One way could be to use these
onion wastes as a natural source of high-value functional ...

Within this article, we report the characterization and organic vapor sensing
properties of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) thin films of calix[8]arenes. Surface
pressure-area isotherms show that very stable monolayers are formed ...

People in industrialised countries spend approximately 80% of their time indoors
and the young and the elderly and people in poor health are likely to spend
considerably more time indoors, particularly at home. Therefore ...

A study using a small range of pathogenic bacterial species (Aeromonas hydrophila, Enterobacter sakazakii, Shigella flexneri, Yersinia enterocolitica and 3 strains of Staphylococcus aureus) has shown that potassium chloride ...

A series of partial least squares (PLS) models were employed to correlate spectral data from FTIR analysis with beef fillet spoilage during aerobic storage at different temperatures (0, 5, 10, 15, and 20°C) using the dataset ...